Katherine Harrold's smoking!!!
Oh my god, in every single scene she was smoking. How disgusting.
shareIt was 1986 - not as politically correct a time as 2008!
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful"
smoking was once used as a character's prop.
man, today's society is way too tight. i'm glad we cornholed the racism and the homophobia, but now we live in a p.c. world in which people speak out just to hear themselves speak. it feels like freedom in chains. in some ways, anything goes, but in another sense you're always looking in the rearview mirror for who's offended by something now.
i say if you want to smoke, smoke if you have them. i don't smoke, so i don't give a fuzz. okay, now i need to hither and heed my own advice and shut up.
Enforced politeness is exactly how they shoehorned "political correctness" in; PC itself has nothing to do with politeness or freedom, however. By policing speech, the state now has carte blanche to police thought (and they're doing it).
Orwell's ghost is laughing at us.
Jack, I agree: the words we hear and use help to create the thoughts that we have. My post that follows is a response to the person who posted directly before you, to whom I attempted to reply.
“[W]e cornholed the homophobia.” Where to begin? This is a comic feast of gargantuan proportions, fit for a Size Queen. Pretty sure that cornholing was one of the phobias the torch-and-pitchfork set originally had in mind. How about glory-holing? It’s like smoking, but (butt? butt?) with no lung cancer, and it’s totally anonymous.